A lot of high end smartphones on the market from different brands, most of them have a wide screen size, reinforced with quad core processors and use the latest operating system. But to have this device, would be people who have a lot of money, so we all know not everyone can afford to have it.
Because of this, many vendors are creating entry-level smartphones with a more affordable price. One of them are Samsung which released a new entry level smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy Pocket GT-S5300.
Design : As the name suggests, this smartphone comfortable if stored in the pocket, because it has a tiny form and thin enough with dimension of 103.9(H) x 57.9(W), and a thickness of only 11.98mm. The Galaxy Pocket made of solid plastic material and on the back of the smartphone covered by doff material, so it is not slippery in the hand.
As a smartphone full touch bar form factor, on the front dominance of the touch screen and below it there are only 2 softkey. Around the phone, there are a microUSB port, power button, volume buttons, and a 3.5mm audio port. If you reverse this device, you will see a camera in the top left, and underneath there is a samsung logo
Display : the Samsung Galaxy Pocket come with 2.8" capacitive touchscreen with resolution of 320 x 240 pixels and capable to produced 262K color with TFT Technology. By working on the Android Gingerbread operating system and use the intuitive TouchWiz interface you will get a pleasant experience when opening a variety of menu pages with good touch screen response. But with a smaller screen size the virtual keypad is certainly small too, so it requires dexterity in typing.
Performance : the Samsung Galaxy Pocket powered by 832 MHz ARM v6 processor, whose performance is also supported by 289.5MB ram memory. As an entry level smartphone is good enough to handle many functions and applications with ease, even when multi-tasking on the device felt smooth and its quick to respond.
Samsung provides a large enough storage capacity, the size of 3GB (2GB + 1GB user memory shared storage) for storing various kinds of your files, but if it s still less, you do not need to worry because it also features a microSD to upgrade the storage capacity.
The Galaxy Pocket have a battery with a capacity of 1,200mAh are able for up to 950min (2g), up to 360min (3g) talk time and up to 520hr (2g), up to 460hr (3g) stand-by time Battery.
Camera : The Galaxy Pocket Android smartphone equipped with 2 Megapixels camera, x2 digital zoom, with various camera features such as Photo Effects(Black & White/Negative/No Effect/Sepia), White Balance(Auto/Daylight/Incandescent/Fluorescent/Cloudy). The camera able to produce good enough quality video recording and supported by clear audio.
Connectivity : The Samsung Galaxy Pocket work on 850/900/1,800/1,900MHz GSM&EDGE Band with 900/2,100MHz 3G Band with HSDPA3.6 Mbps data speeds. To facilitate the transfer of data between devices, there are a variety of connectivity features such as Wi-Fi with the ability to share up to 5 devices, Bluetooth 3.0 + which offers high-speed wireless connections to other devices like headsets, printers, PCs and other devices. And also offer other connectivity such as USB 2.0 High Speed, WAP 2.0/HTTP, Android Internet HTML Browser, SyncML (DM) 1.2 FOTA, AGPS Supported, Samsung Kies(PC Sync Application).
The Galaxy Pocket also comes with a Social Hub, a center for all your communication needs. Everything is integrated so you can send email, message, open a Facebook page and Twitter by browsing through your contacts list. You can also use the chaton, and its possible to stay connected with multimedia features, chat and message animation.
Other features : In terms of entertainment the Galaxy Pocket equipped with FM Radio and music player that provide audio entertainment, and also video player being able to play video formats such as 3GPP/H.263/H.264/MPEG4.